Girls volleyball: NJIC stat leaders, October 17 By: PJ Potter | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Note: All stats are included through matches played by October 16. Any match played on October 17 will be included in next week’s edition. KILLS Player School Kills Emma Fowler...

    Midseason Top 20 VB rankings Immaculate Heart (20-1) Old Tappan (16-1) Northern Highlands (14-4) Demarest (14-3) Bergen Tech (16-3) Wayne Valley (13-3) River Dell (12-4) Pascack Hills (15-3) Ramapo (10-6) Fair Lawn (13-4) Secaucus (17-1) Hackensack (17-6) Passaic...

                      By Mike Kinney | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com NORTH JERSEY INTERSCHOLASTIC CONFERENCE Football Players of the Week Luke Cerulli, Rutherford, Sr., LB Cerulli had a big impact in Rutherford’s 28-20 comeback win over Hawthorne in the NJIC semifinals....

Public Top 20 rankings 20. Lyndhurst (4-3) Last game: Lost to Park Ridge, 40-21 Next game: Friday vs. Hawthorne (5-2) 19. Pascack Hills (6-1) Last game: Beat Bergen Tech, 43-0 Next game: Friday at Hopatcong (3-5) 18. Lakeland (5-3) Last game: Lost to Westwood, 30-7...

Greg Mattura NorthJersey.com HAWTHORNE − Rutherford put its fate in the hands of a freshman in Myles Balchan. The ninth-grader came off the bench and quarterbacked the two-time defending champion Bulldogs to a 28-20 victory over Hawthorne in Friday night's NJIC...

Greg Tartaglia NorthJersey.com PARK RIDGE − Cole Hughes did more passing than rushing in the first half, and he was stopped more often than not. The Park Ridge quarterback then kept it on the ground in the second half and ran wild. Hughes’ four second-half scores...

Friday NJIC semifinals  Rutherford 28, Hawthorne 20 Park Ridge 40, Lyndhurst 21 Other conference cross-over games Butler 27, Glen Rock 20 North Arlington 27, Cresskill/Emerson 20 (OT)  Hasbrouck Heights 28, New Milford 0  St. Mary 21, Becton 7 Secaucus 35, Saddle...